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WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq has asked Iran if
the two countries can join their oil pipelines, a
move that would allow Saddam Hussein to partly
bypass the international embargo against his
country, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Iran has not yet responded to the Iraqi request,
the officials said.
Intelligence experts estimate a link between
the two pipeline systems could be completed
within a month across the countries’ common
border if they decide to go ahead. One of Iraq’s
major pipelines, which runs along the Shatt-al-
Arab waterway, at one point is just five miles
from a major Iranian pipeline that goes into
Iran’s refinery at Abadan.
Such a link would let Iraq export 500,000 bar
rels of oil a day in retur n for badly needed cash,
food and medicine, said the officials, who com
mented only on condition of not being named.
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The Iraqi request is the latest overture by Pres
ident Saddam Hussein toward Iran, with which
he fought a destructive eight-year war. He has
. turned to his former foe in an effort to breach
stBizzellHj international blockade imposed by the
United Nations after his Aug. 2 invasion of Ku
wait.
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Iran has gotten back thousands of war prisoners
and an agreement of shared sovereignty over a
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“So far we have no
indications of Iraqi tankers in
Iranian waters. We would
expect Iran would take
appropriate measures to
prevent circumvention of the
embargo in their territorial
waters.”
— Margaret Tutwiler,
State Department spokeswoman
bitterly contested border waterway. In addition,
Iraq has withdrawn troops from Iranian territory
occupied during the 1980-88 war.
A senior Iranian official is in Baghdad nego
tiating terms of the rapprochement.
And Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan said Thurs
day that Saddam may soon visit Tehran.
Administration officials have played down the
importance of the thaw, saying Iran has every
thing to gain and little to lose. They also note that
Iran has promised to abide by the embargo, and
say they see no signs it has not.
Nonetheless, U.S. intelligence is keeping an
eye on three tankers anchored at an Iraqi pipe
line terminal in the Persian Gulf. U.S. officials
say they are worried the oil-laden vessels might
head for nearby Iranian waters and unload the
oil to be sold through Iran.
“So far we have no indications of Iraqi tankers
in Iranian waters,” said State Department
spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler.
“We would expect Iran would take appropri
ate measures to prevent circumvention of the
embargo in their territorial waters,” Tutwiler
said.
The CIA estimates that the naval blockade by
the United States and its allies has stopped most
of Iraq’s oil shipments. The little that escapes the
blockade goes mostly to neighboring Jordan, of
ficials said.
The administration has turned a blind eye to
those transfers — which violate the embargo on
Iraq — because it says Jordan has scaled back its
oil dependence on Iraq and Kuwait from 90 per
cent of its needs to 40 percent.
Iraq only profits from the sale by getting Jor
dan to forgive some of its wartime loans, officials
say.
Jordan, which had been getting oil from Iraq
at cut-rate prices, will be unable to buy much of it
elsewhere unless it gets a large infusion of for
eign aid, say the officials.
U.S. officials say they are considering how best
to help Jordan, which has also been inundated
with thousands of refugees from Kuwait.
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A student walks west across the Wellborn bridge late Thursday afternoon towards the fish lot.
Medical care adviser cautions
students about heat, alcohol
By STACY ALLEN
Of The Battalion Staff
While attending Texas A&M foot
ball games and yell practices are fun
for most people, students should be
aware of medical problems that can
occur when fun is mixed with irre
sponsibility.
Dudley Wait, chief of emergency
medical services at A&M, says heat
that accompanies football games and
heavy alcohol consumption during
yell practice contribute to unneces
sary medical problems.
Wait, a senior management ma
jor, says standing through games,
not eating before kickoff and de
hydration as a result of earlier alco
hol consumption all are causes of
medical cases frequently treated dur
ing games.
Most problems, he says, could be
avoided through common sense, in
cluding eating before games, drink
ing fluids during the game and
wearing a hat or sun screen.
To treat those who do begin to
feel ill, two first aid stations are on
the second and thix d decks.
The main station is at the north
end of Kyle Field and is staffed with
a doctor and nurse for more serious
cases.
Although heat-related problems
at games are concerns of emergency
medical services, Wait says alcohol
consumption before yell practice the
night before home games is the ma
jor worry.
Problems occur because people
drink too much and become sick or
involved in fights or accidents, he
says.
During the year’s first yell prac
tice, emergency care services re
ceived eight calls between 8 p.m. and
7 a.m., the majority being alcohol re
lated.
Wait says he is not asking students
not to drink before yell practice, but
to know their limits.
“We just want
students to use
common sense, act
responsibly and be
careful.”
— Dudley Wait,
chief of emergency
medical services
“We just want students to use
common sense, act responsibly and
be careful,” he says. “We know
drinking is going to go on, but it
worries us when people do it to ex
cess.”
Emergency medical services is on
campus in the A.P. Beutel Health
Center, and is open 24 hours a day,
seven days a week while A&M is in
session.
Students needing emergency at
tention should call 9911, the cam
pus’ emergency number.
Mock GMAT to help students
pass exam for MBA program
Texas A&M’s first mock General
Management Admission Test will be
given this Saturday.
The GMAT is the admission test
for the Master’s of Business Admin
istration program. A&M’s MBA/Law
Committee is sponsoring the mock
test.
The test will be from 8 a.m. to 1
p.m. in 105 Heldenfels. Cost is $6
and students can sign up in 216
MSG.
MBA/Law Committee Chairwo
man Michelle Hood says the com
mittee’s purpose is to educate stu
dents about the opportunities
available to them after graduating
from the MBA program.
But students first need help get
ting into the program — the reason
for the mock test, she says.
Some post-MBA help is offered
during the next few months.
Forty-eight law school representa
tives will be in the Blocker Building
lobby Oct. 3. Thirty business school
representatives will be there Oct. 11.
Forty-five former A&M students,
prominent in their respective fields,
will be the focus of a November sym
posium.
A&M Student from Dallas dies
Funeral services for Texas A&M
senior Gregory Allan Lewis will be
Saturday at Restland Cemetery in
Dallas.
Lewis, a 21-year-old physics major
from Dallas, died Wednesday morn
ing. Cause of death is unknown.
He is survived by his wife.
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Horizontal drilling pumps industry;
vertical wells increase oil extraction
By BILLHETHCOCK
Of The Battalion Staff
Uncle Jed on the Beverly Hillbil
lies made it seem easy. When one
day he was shooting at some food—
and up from the ground came a
bubbling crude. Oil that is. Texas
tea.
According to oil industry experts
at Texas A&M Thursday, plenty of
Texas tea lies un-tapped, but new
drilling techniques are necessary to
bring it to the surface.
“Horizontal drilling
allows us to drill
perpendicular to the
cracks and get higher
production rates.”
— Dr. Hans Juvkam-Wold,
petroleum engineering
professor
Breakthroughs in horizontal dril
ling will lead to recovery of over a
billion barrels of oil in South Central
Texas oil fields, the panel of oil in
dustry analysts said.
Horizontal drilling is a method of
extracting oil by starting with a verti
cal well, then turning the drill bit
away at an angle until it is horizontal.
This method allows drillers to tap
into oil contained in vertical frac
tures of limestone.
The Austin Chalk region, a geo
logical formation in South Central
Texas, is full of these vertical under
round oil reservoirs, which are dif-
icult to hit with conventional dril-
ling.
Two main oil fields lie along the
300-mile stretch of Austin Chalk.
One of these, the Giddings field, lies
partly in Burleson County southwest
of Brazos County. The other main
field is the Pearsall Field in Frio
County, south of San Antonio.
Texas A&M petroleum engi
neering professor Dr. Hans Juvkam-
Wold said horizontal drilling nor
mally produces three to five times as
much oil as a vertical well. Some hor
izontal wells produce up to 20 times
more than their vertical coun
terparts, he added.
However, horizontal drilling costs
I'/a to two times as much as vertical
drilling. Still, Juvkam-Wold said, the
increased productivity often outw
eighs the higher cost of drilling.
“Horizontal drilling allows us to
drill perpendicular to the cracks and
get higher production rates,” he
said.
Dale Bossert, vice president of
production for Union Pacific Re
sources, said horizontal drilling
brings a quick return on investment
in most cases.
“You get your money back quick
ly,” he said. “In many cases you get it
all back within a year.”
Bossert said the concept of hori
zontal drilling has been around since
1891, but recent technological ad
vancements have made it applicable
to fields such as the Austin Chalk.
This technology consists of com
puter guided drill bits and new com
puter software. In conventional dril
ling, bits are controlled from the
drilling platform, but in horizontal
drilling, bits are driven by motors
down in the bore hole.
Bossert expects horizontal drilling
to have a big impact on the oil indus
try in Texas.
“We’ve just touched the tip of the
iceberg in how to use this new tech
nology,” he said.
Dr. Steve Holditch, of A&M’s pe
troleum engineering department,
said horizontal drilling is creating
another oil boom around the Austin
Chalk oil fields in towns that live or
die by the oil business.
“This is the fifth Austin Chalk
boom, and this boom is coming
about from a new technology, and
that is horizontal drilling,” Holditch
said.
Student circulates petition to
protest change of parking lots
ByTROY HALL
Of The Battalion St&ff
A change of Parking Lot 74’s sta
tus has eliminated student parking
spaces on the Texas A&M campus
and caused frustration for many
commuters.
Lot 74, on west campus, was
changed from a blue permit area —
for commuting students — to yellow
permit parking — reserved faculty
and staff — after the first week of
the semester.
This eliminated nearly 50 percent
of the student parking spaces, says
Philip Donahoo, a junior landscape
horticulture major from Plano.
“Students who go to school here,
whether in the Horticulture Build
ing, Kleburg, the Heep Building, or
anyone who may need these places
to park, will all agree this is a night
mare,” Donahoo says.
The petition has been signed by
several A&M faculty members and
more than 100 students.
“I spent 45 minutes last Thursday
morning with the petition and got 89
signatures just from people walking
from the lot toward the Horticulture
Building,” he says. “Several signa
tures were from people who were ac
tually waiting four and five cars
deep in line for a parking place.”
Kathy Mathis, parking, transit
and traffic administrator, says many
don’t understand the change.
“It takes time to get the parking
lot situation finished, and I don’t
think the students understand how
the system works,” Mathis says.
Faculty and staff have until Oct. 1
to purchase parking permits, Mathis
says. By mid-October the parking
spaces will be evaluated and changed
as needed.
“We don’t want empty parking
spaces, just as students don’t,” Ma
this says.
But Donahoo says that seems not
to be the case.
“About 50 percent of the entire
lots (lot 71 and 74) is staff parking,”
he says. “Of that, the staff side is
probably, at most, 30 percent full at
any given time. The day student
parking area is at capacity with peo
ple waiting in line.
“We have acres of land that could
be graded and graveled for at least
temporary parking,” Donahoo says,
pointing at pasture land west of lots
/1 and 74.
Mathis says more than 300 faculty
and staff permits have been sold for
lot 74.
“Students need to realize they are
Parking
available
Two new parking areas avail
able to commuter students have
not been full during the first few
days the lots have been open.
Tom Williams, director of the
Department of Parking, Transit
and Traffic Services, says he be
lieves the parking areas have not
been full because most students
do not know the lots are available.
Parking lots 69 and 91 are on
the southwest side of campus be
tween Kyle Field and the tennis
courts. Both lots are reserved for
commuter student parking.
The lots were opened last Fri
day.
If you have any questions about
on-campus parking, call parking,
transit and traffic at 845-9700.
Students .also are invited to
pick up a copy of the “Parking
Tips to Survive 1990-1991” bro
chure at the offices, 717B Univer-
sity Drive, across from the
Blocker Building.
in blue lots and are allowed to come
and go as they please within any of
the other blue lots, but faculty and
staff are limited because they are
only allowed to park in one lot,” she
says.
Mathis adds that she had been out
to parking lots 71 and 74 to see the
problem, but emphasizes that it
takes a little time to evaluate and
find the best solution to the prob
lem.
“Students who go to school here... will all
agree this is a nightmare. About 50 percent of
the entire lot (lots 71 and 74) is staff parking.
Of that, the staff side is probably, at most, 30
percent full at any given time. The day-student
parking area is at capacity with people waiting
in line. We have acres of land that could be
graded and graveled for at least temporary
parking”
— Philip Donahoo,
a junior landscape horticulture major from Plano.